Galatians 2:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

To wit, for the false brethren which were craftily sent in, and crept in priuily to spie out our libertie, which we haue in Christ Iesus, that they might bring vs into bondage.

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  • 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 In iourneying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine owne nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the citie, in perils in wildernes, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certaine men crept in, which were before of olde ordeined to this condemnation: vngodly men they are which turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse, and denie God the onely Lord, and our Lord Iesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For ye suffer, euen if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face.
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 Then came downe certaine from Iudea, and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the maner of Moses, ye cannot be saued.
  • Acts 15:24 : 24 Forasmuch as we haue heard, that certaine which went out from vs, haue troubled you with wordes, and cumbred your mindes, saying, Ye must be circumcised and keepe the Lawe: to whom we gaue no such commaundement,
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 (For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 Euen so, we when wee were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such false apostles are deceitfull workers, and transforme themselues into the Apostles of Christ.
  • Gal 5:12-13 : 12 Would to God they were euen cut off, which doe disquiet you. 13 For brethren, ye haue bene called vnto libertie: onely vse not your libertie as an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another.
  • 2 Tim 3:6 : 6 For of this sort are they which creepe into houses, and leade captiue simple women laden with sinnes, and led with diuers lustes,
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Bvt there were false prophets also among the people, euen as there shalbe false teachers among you: which priuily shall bring in damnable heresies, euen denying the Lorde, that hath bought them, and bring vpon themselues swift damnation. 2 And many shall folow their destructions, by whom the way of trueth shalbe euil spoken of,
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Promising vnto them libertie, & are themselues the seruants of corruption: for of whomsoeuer a man is ouercome, euen vnto the same is he in bondage.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 Dearely beloued, beleeue not euery spirit, but trie the spirits whether they are of God: for many false prophets are gone out into this worlde.
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shal beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he be.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 That I speake, I speake it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.
  • Gal 3:23-26 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept vnder the Law, as vnder a garison, and shut vp vnto that faith, which should afterward be reueiled. 24 Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaster. 26 For ye are al the sonnes of God by faith, in Christ Iesus.
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now seeing ye knowe God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye againe vnto impotent and beggerly rudiments, whereunto as from the beginning ye wil be in bondage againe? 10 Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Moreouer of your owne selues shall men arise speaking peruerse thinges, to drawe disciples after them.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye haue not receiued the Spirit of bodage, to feare againe: but ye haue receiued the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.
  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Nowe the Lorde is the Spirite, and where the Spirite of the Lorde is, there is libertie.
  • Ps 51:12 : 12 Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation, and stablish me with thy free Spirit.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 And I will walke at libertie: for I seeke thy precepts.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into their hande that spoile thee: which haue said to thy soule, Bowe downe, that wee may goe ouer, and thou hast layde thy bodie as the grounde, and as the streete to them that went ouer.
  • John 8:31-36 : 31 Then saide Iesus to the Iewes which beleeued in him, If ye continue in my worde, ye are verely my disciples, 32 And shall know the trueth, and the trueth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, Wee be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: why sayest thou then, Ye shalbe made free? 34 Iesus answered them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer committeth sinne, is the seruant of sinne. 35 And the seruant abideth not in the house for euer: but the Sonne abideth for euer. 36 If that Sonne therefore shal make you free, ye shalbe free in deede.

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